Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns Adjectives and adjectival phrases that describe quantity are shown

below. Some can only go with countablenouns (friends, cups, people), and some can only go with uncountablenouns (sugar, tea, money, advice). The words in the middle column can be used with bothcountable and uncountable nouns.

Only with uncountable nouns How much? a little a bit (of) a great deal of a large amount of -

With uncountable and countable nouns How much? or How many? no/none not any some (any) a lot of plenty of lots of a few

Only with countable nouns How many? a number (of) several a large number of a great number of -

PRACTICE: 1. Put the nouns in the correct column. children bird egg table coffee cheese bread milk knife feet watch cherries Air steam hair sugar Countable nouns Singular Plural child children bird birds egg eggs table Tables man men sandwich sandwiches knife knives foot feet cherry cherries poster posters apple apples

meat tea poster happiness

men sandwiches apples

Uncountable nouns coffee meat Cheese bread milk tea watch Air steam hair sugar happiness

2. Complete with a,anor some. 1. Theres a letter for you on your desk. 2. Be careful! Theres _an_ mouse under the sofa! 3. Theres _some_ milk for Suzie in that bowl. 4. Ive got _an_ idea! Lets go to the cinema tonight! 5. Marys got _a_ baby brother. 6. Well done! This is _an_ excellent story. 7. Theres _some_ orange juice for the children in the fridge. 8. This is _an_ old photo of Peters parents. 9. Theres _some_ soup for you on the table. 10. Weve got _some_ cheese. Lets make _a_ pizza!

3. Complete with some or any. 1. Ive got some beautiful postcards from London. 2. There arent _any_ bananas for Stanley. 3. Have we got _some_ orange juice? 4. There are _____some_____ books on that desk. 5. This soup is awful! There isnt ____any_______ salt in it! 6. There are _____some______ beautiful toy cars in Stanleys room. 7. Have you got __some__________ brothers or sisters? 8. Well done! There arent ___any___________ mistakes in your test! 9. Theres ______some______ milk in the fridge. 10. Is there ______any_________ ice cream for me?

4. Complete the questions and answer them. Is there any orange juice in the fridge? (apple juice)

There isnt any orange juice but there is some apple juice.
1. Are there _some_ hamburgers for me? (cheeseburgers) 2. Are there _any_ shoe shops in this street? (toy shops) 3. _Are_ there _any_ cola in that bottle? (lemonade) 4. _Are_ there _any_ zoos in your town? (museums) 5. _Are_ there _any_ milk in that cup? (tea)

6. _Are_ there _any_ bananas in the fridge? (strawberries)

5. Use the correct form of the given nouns to complete the following sentences . language sleeve party fun vegetable information fruit money hair advice

1. We can buy fresh _fruit_ from the supermarket. 2. Mrs. Lee went to the travel agent for some __advice_ about the tour to Japan. 3. I cant wear this shirt. The _sleeve_ are too long. 4. How many_language_does Jenny speak? 5. Miss Ng spends a lot of _money_ on clothes. 6. I dont know what to do. Please give me some __information_. 7. Karen has beautiful _hair_. 8. We had a lot of _fun_ at the party last night. 9. Susan enjoys going to _party_. 10. Alan eats a lot of _vegetable_. 6.Choose the correct answer. 1. She burst into _tears_ (tear/ tears) when she heard the bad news. 2. Peter and Jack shake _hand_ (hand/ hands) and become friends again. 3. She cant see what is written on the blackboard without her contact_lens (len/ lens) 4. The two sisters took _turns_ (turn/ turns) at sitting up with their sick mother. 5. Quite a number of _DJs_ (DJ/ DJs) have extended their careers to singing. 6. If you want to get well, you should take the doctors ____advices_ (advice/ advices). 7. Mary never does her _homework_ (homework/ homeworks) 8. Johnny has lost his _luggage_ (luggage/ luggages). 9. The factory workers stopped working and took a rest (a rest/ rest). 10. The children sat on the __grasses__ (grass/ grasses). 7.Choose the correct question with "how many or how much" 1- How many is that sweater? How much is that sweater? How much brothers and sisters do you

2- How many brothers and sister do you have? have

3- How many homework does your teacher give you? teacher give you? 4- How many is the hotel room? 5. How many fuel does this engine need?

How much homework does your

How much is the hotel room? How muchfuel does this engine need ?